A quick update coming in for the long talked about feature Cold Skin. Director David Slade is no longer attached to the flick, and filling his spot will be Frontier(s) director Xavier Gens.

According to Variety Gens is attached to direct the psychological thriller for Madrid and Paris-based Kanzaman. Set on an Antarctic island, Cold Skin adapts Catalan writer Albert Sanchez Pinol’s eponymous bestseller.

Cold Skin the novel is about a young man who is sent to an Antarctic island, where he discovers amphibious humanoids, one of which has been captured and used as a sex slave by another man on the island. Conflict arises when the protagonist comes to care for the female creature.